Discussion Quotes - Page 27

• Discussions of generations only go downhill. There's no point in having them.

  Douglas Coupland

  Generations, No Point

  Source: feathertale.com

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• I support the idea that artists have to make a stand. I'm with that - you're putting the discussion on the table and you're letting people know. You're being brave as an artist and responsible to the community.

  Talib Kweli

  Artist, Ideas, People

  "Talib Kweli Stands His Ground". Interview with Aj Vicens, www.motherjones.com. August 26, 2013.

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• China is incredibly important to the future of mankind. For me, this is something that we all need to have intelligent discussions about in America, in Britain, in Europe. We need to really understand that their destiny and our destiny, Africa's destiny, etc., are all completely tied in. The argument for getting to know your neighbors is very compelling.

  Jamie Hewlett

  Destiny, Intelligent, Europe

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I raise my hand; I take a book from the other side of this desk; I hear the boys playing ball outside my window; I see the clouds blown away beyond the neighboring woods:-in all these I am practicing Zen, I am living Zen. No worldly discussion is necessary, or any explanation.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Book, Boys, Hands

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• A university is a reading and discussion club. If students knew how to use the library, they wouldn't need the rest of the buildings. The faculty's job, in great part, is to teach students how to use a library in a living way. All a student should really need is access to the library and a place to sleep.

  John Ciardi

  Jobs, Reading, Sleep

  John Ciardi (1989). “Ciardi himself: fifteen essays in the reading, writing, and teaching of poetry”, Univ of Arkansas Pr

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• Put an end once and for all to this discussion of what a good person should be, and be one.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Good Person, Ends, Should

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• All my friends are rock critics, so we talk about rock criticism a lot. Because of that, in order to be part of the conversation, you have to have an awareness of what the discussion is.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Rocks, Order, Criticism

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. November 15, 2006.

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• It's just hard to have a nuanced discussion with like a thousand people, 30 of which are white-power skinheads.

  Ian MacKaye

  White, People, Thousand

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• A person who knows all the answers, has an opinion on everything, has a certainty backed up by rational argument, has very little possibility of further progress. Such a person is unlikely to walk away from a discussion with anything more than a reaffirmation of how right he or she has been all along.

  Edward de Bono

  Progress, Answers, Littles

  Edward De Bono (1991). “I Am Right, You are Wrong: From this to the New Renaissance : from Rock Logic to Water Logic”, Penguin Group USA

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• Inspiration, in its rich variety, must be present in any discussion about Africa. We need role models - they are essential to the advancement of our society.

  Richard Attias

  Inspiration, Role Models, Essentials

  "Africa and the Six ‘I’s: Independence, Investment, Infrastructure, Innovation, Incubation, Inspiration" by Richard Attias, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 11, 2013.

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• It is only when someone cannot defend his opinion, and is not interested in believing the truth, that he will attempt to stifle discussion with good manners. Those who take religion, politics and sex seriously do not adhere to the general prohibition on discussing these topics. And they do not take offence when they are shown to be wrong.
  If you start to feel during a discussion, that you are not so much incorrect as insensitive, then you are probably dealing with a respectable bigot.

  Jamie Whyte

  Sex, Believe, Good Man

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• We know that if you have $20 million, it's better to buy a van Gough print than it is buy an executive jet, from the point of view of the environment. But when you start getting down, it's like the recycling question: What are things we can really afford to do, and how much pleasure do we get out of them? We haven't even started to have that discussion, and it's getting awfully late.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Views, Recycling, Environment

  "Q&A: Paul Ehrlich". Interview with Jesse Finfrock, www.motherjones.com. 2008.

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• To me, the fun part of both jobs is to always try to push the discussion and debate forward in some way. The most fun part of being a theater critic for the Times was always to try and champion something that maybe other people didn't like, or that was produced under obscure circumstances or had to fight for its life. And I would say in the column what I try to do is in some ways related in that I'm trying to fight for a point of view. I'm not trying to be a kingmaker in either job, and don't want to be, and shouldn't be.

  Frank Rich

  Jobs, Fun, Fighting

  "The MoJo Interview: Frank Rich". Interview with Kiera Butler, www.motherjones.com. November 26, 2008.

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• The problem with our Blackberry society is that hardly anyone has time anymore to have an unhurried discussion about the long-term developments that will change our lives.

  Paul Achleitner

  Long, Development, Problem

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Artists are valuable to public discussion: They show the correlation between doing and thinking.

  Olafur Eliasson

  Artist, Thinking, Valuable

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• When the whole discussion of "developing a national idea" hastily began in post-Soviet Russia, I tried to pour cold water on it with the objection that, after all the devastating losses we had experienced, it would be quite sufficient to have just one task: the preservation of a dying people.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Loss, Ideas, Russia

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I often have discussions with people who demand pluralism and much more. One can discuss these issues, but only within the framework of the law.

  Nguyen Minh Triet

  Law, Issues, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• If the Holocaust didn't take place, why then did this regime of occupation come about? Why do the European countries commit themselves to defending this regime? Permit me to make one more point. We are of the opinion that, if an historical occurrence conforms to the truth, this truth will be revealed all the more clearly if there is more research into it and more discussion about it.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Country, Holocaust, Historical

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• People tend to take sides in these discussions. They feel obligated to say baseball is in catastrophic circumstance or no problem at all. I think extremes are misleading. I think there's a problem and it's of modest dimensions.

  Andrew Zimbalist

  Baseball, Thinking, People

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• Whats great about The Avengers is that its the next step. Its not just superhero fights super-villain and superhero wins. Its about superheroes that come together and interact. Its a clash of the egos. You could do Avengers 1 without a villain, just with all these guys coming together. They could sit down and just have a discussion.

  Louis Leterrier

  Fighting, Winning, Superhero

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• I think there's a very clear recognition and understanding that the progress of women in business at the very highest decision-making levels is too slow. This is a discussion that's going on in every country around the world, actually.

  Quentin Bryce

  Country, Thinking, Decision

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• We must also remember some of the key lessons of Scripture. In our weakness he is strong. He can use suffering to strengthen our character. He can use evil to accomplish good (precisely the nature of the discussion in the book of Habakkuk). God's sovereignty is demonstrated in that whatever personal or nonpersonal agents do, God takes it and turns it to his purpose.

  John H. Walton

  Strong, Book, Character

  John H. Walton (2010). “The Lost World of Genesis One: Ancient Cosmology and the Origins Debate”, p.134, InterVarsity Press

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• I think the understanding of the role of markets has really helped advance the values of entrepreneurship. Its helped shape public policy discussions in a whole variety of ways.

  Lars Peter Hansen

  Thinking, Understanding, Roles

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• Discussion is just a tool. You have to aim; the final goal must be a decision.

  Harri Holkeri

  Goal, Decision, Finals

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• Yoo's theory promotes frank discussion of the national interest and makes it harder for politicians to parade policy conflicts as constitutional crises. Most important, Yoo's approach offers a way to renew our political system's democratic vigor.

  David B. Rivkin

  Political, Important, Vigor

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